Hasan Turkmani

Hasan Ali Turkmani (27 January 1935-18 July 2012) was the Chief-of-Staff of the Syrian Arab Army from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of Defense of Syria from 2004 to 2009.

Biography
Hasan Ali Turkmani was born in Aleppo in the French Mandate of Syria on 27 January 1935 to a Sunni Muslim Turkmen family. He joined the Syrian Arab Army in 1955 as a junior officer, educated in East Germany in 1965 and Egypt in 1969. In 1973, he led a rearguard action near Damascus during the Yom Kippur War with Israel, and served as Chief-of-Staff of the Syrian Arab Army from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of Defense of Syria from 2004 to 2009. He was assassinated in a bomb assassination in Damascus during the Syrian Civil War on 18 July 2012 alongside Assef Shawkat and Dawoud Rajiha.